Exercises
Build practical skill with Mandarin number expressions used in everyday situations. This quiz covers telling time, reading prices and dates, saying phone numbers, handling zeros in large values, and expressing decimals, fractions, percentages, ordinals, and large Chinese number units. The questions range from foundational number patterns to more challenging forms that require careful attention to word order and place value.
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七点半 means 7:30. The word 半 means “half,” so it indicates half an hour after seven.
十八元五角 is ¥18.50 because one 角 equals one-tenth of a yuan. Five 角 therefore equals ¥0.50.
一百零五 is 105. 零 marks the missing tens place between one hundred and five.
Years are normally read digit by digit, so 2026 is 二〇二六年. September 5 is 九月五日.
The digit 1 is often pronounced yāo in phone numbers and other digit strings. This makes it easier to distinguish from similar-sounding digits.
一万零八 is 10,008. 零 bridges the missing thousands, hundreds, and tens places before the final eight.
三点一四 is correct. After 点, each decimal digit is read separately: 1 is 一 and 4 is 四.
Chinese fractions place the denominator before 分之 and the numerator after it. Therefore, 2/3 is 三分之二.
百分之二十五 means 25 percent. The pattern is 百分之 + number, literally “number parts out of one hundred.”
第十二层 explicitly means “the twelfth floor.” 第 marks an ordinal number, while 层 identifies a building level.
Forty out of one hundred equals 40 percent, expressed as 百分之四十. In percentage expressions, 百分之 comes before the value.
二万零三百零五 is 20,305. The first 零 marks the absent thousands place, and the second marks the absent tens place.
一百万 equals one million. 百万 means one hundred units of 万: 100 × 10,000 = 1,000,000.
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